 Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped...  Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland - 第 56 頁由 編輯 - 2004有限的預覽 - 關於此書
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...visage" (4) reported by "a traveller from an antique land" (i), majestic also in its awful solitude: "Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away" (12— 14).5<1 Colossal wrecks are the subjects of Tennyson's "A... | |
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